Explanatory Notes        Apparatus Notes (Ⓐ)

Source: Mark Twain: A Biography. By Albert Bigelow Paine. 3 vols. New York: Harper and Brothers. [Volume numbers in citations are to this edition; page numbers are the same in all editions.] ([])

Cue: "Sue, we are"

Source format: "Transcript"

Letter type: "[standard letter]"

Notes:

Last modified: 1998-03-12T00:00:00

Revision History: HES 1998-03-12 was 1870.02.25 after, tr by Paine at MoSMTB

Published on MTPO: 2007

Print Publication: v4

MTPDocEd
From Olivia L. and Samuel L. Clemens to Susan L. Crane
26 or 27 February 1870 • Buffalo, N.Y. ( MTB , 1:409, UCCL 00434)

Sue, we are two as happy people as you ever saw. Our days seem to be made up of only bright sunlight, with no shadow in them.

Livy pines & Ⓐemendation pines every day for you, & I pine & pine every day for you, & when we both of us are pining at once you would think it was a whole pine forest let loose.1explanatory note

Textual Commentary
26 or 27 February 1870 • From Olivia L. and Samuel L. Clemens to Susan L. Crane • Buffalo, N.Y. • UCCL 00434
Source text(s):

MTB , 1:409.

Previous Publication:

L4 , 80–81.

Explanatory Notes
1 

These fragments cannot be precisely dated, but may belong to the letter Olivia promised her father on 26 February.

Emendations and Textual Notes
Ⓐ  & ●  and three times; also at 80.24
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